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CHAPTER IV
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The wolf-cub at even lay hid in the corn,
When the smoke of the cooking hung gray:
But the moon swept the smoke-wreaths away.
And he turned from his meal in the villager’s close,
And he bayed to the moon as she rose.
—In Seonee.
“Well, and how does success taste?” said Torpenhow, some three months later. He had just returned to chambers3 after a holiday in the country.
“Good,” said Dick, as he sat licking his lips before the easel in the studio.
“I want more,—heaps more. The lean years have passed, and I approve of these fat ones.”
“Be careful, old man. That way lies bad work.”
Torpenhow was sprawling5 in a long chair with a small fox-terrier asleep on his chest, while Dick was preparing a canvas. A dais, a background, and a lay-figure were the only fixed7 objects in the place. They rose from a wreck8 of oddments that began with felt-covered water-bottles, belts, and regimental badges, and ended with a small bale of second-hand9 uniforms and a stand of mixed arms. The mark of muddy feet on the dais showed that a military model had just gone away. The watery10 autumn sunlight was falling, and shadows sat in the corners of the studio.
“Yes,” said Dick, deliberately11, “I like the power; I like the fun; I like the fuss; and above all I like the money. I almost like the people who make the fuss and pay the money. Almost. But they’re a queer gang,—an amazingly queer gang!”
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continental
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brutal
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majesty
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virtue
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flay
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audacity
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cataclysm
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instinctively
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berth
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spun
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scarlet
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dictate
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